Standup Notes 2018 12 04

Participants (alphabetical): Conor, Emmanuel, Erik, Jaysinh, Jen, Josh, Kevin, Kushal, Mike, Mickael, Nina

Call-outs

Release:

Client architecture recap: See https://pad.riseup.net/p/ClientArchitectureSync for notes -- focusing on MVC refactor for now, putting replies on hold

For later discussion: https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/pull/33

Conor

Yesterday: Reviewed and approved GCE CI PR! https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/3909 Took a look at iptables Xenial ticket, will try something hacky like rc.local to append the new rule (only relevant for upgrades).

Today: Merged GCE CI PR (neglected to do so yesterday, oops). Only landed in develop, so shouldn't affect release tooling. Holler if any problems.

Blockers: None.

Emmanuel

Yesterday: Support, non-SD work

Today: Non-SD work, Migrating client data, Support

Blockers: None!

Erik

Link to current pre-release announcement draft: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G_j8v0IdeQ2Oj0tfVBhqpMpNmBmks1Zk8fQXlzOUHA8/edit

Yesterday:

• Pre-release announcement
• More support-related follow-up
• More hiring (phone screen, candidate follow-up)
• Xenial planning

Today:

• a UX research session with Nina in the afternoon
• finishing and distributing pre-release notes for 0.11.0 by EOD
• more planning of the Xenial transition w/ Jen and Conor
• task review for the SecureDrop Sr. Engineer position w/ Jen and Mickael
• assorted hiring & support follow-up.

Blockers:

heartsucker

Yesterday:

• worked on getting UI to behave well with replies
• MVC framework stuff

Today:

• More MVC stuff
• Qt slots/signals stuff?

Blockers:

• I don't actually know what I'm doing with Qt D:

Jaysinh:

Yesterday:

• Created a fix for preventing client crash when journalist is trying to delete a source while in offline mode https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/205

Today:

• Fix for wrong total files and total messages numbers displayed at delete source confirmation message box https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/pull/206

Blockers:

None

Jen

Yesterday:

• reviewed release related PRs as needed
• spent some time learning qt's MVC pattern https://github.com/redshiftzero/python-qt-mvc

Today:

• block of meetings all morning to do planning, hiring stuff, etc.
• afternoon start messing with using these abstract classes for the cliennt application as discussed in https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client/issues/208

Blockers:

Josh

Yesterday

• rebuilding client
• deploying staging server
• debugging unstarring issue

Today

• more unstarring issue
• learning qt-mvc
• learning qt abstract classes

Kevin

Yesterday: Evening: spent some time replicating a support-related issue. This morning: caught up on some outstanding support tasks, started upgrade test of 0.11.0 rc3

Today: Continuing to test RC3

Blockers: No blockers.

Kushal

Yesterday:

• Doing QA for rc3
• Pushed the PR for reproducible debian package builds https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-debian-packaging/pull/33

Today:

Blockers:

Mike

Yesterday: GCE Nested CI instance cleanup work

Today: GCE cleanup work from yesterday and unrelated infrastructure tasks :(

Blockers:

Mickael

Yesterday:

• Uploaded RC3 debs
• QA on rc3
• otherwise meeting-heavy day

Today:

• Continuing QA on RC3
• Hiring tasks
• Preparing physical instance for RC4 testing

Blockers:

Nina

Yesterday: Visual Design, some research prep, and a happy distraction in the AM.

Today: VisDe cave, with a pop-out in the afternoon for a user testing session; then unavailable until 3:45, to get an estimate on having my hot water heater replaced. :(

Blockers: None!